Post #3938453

2026-07-19 17:00 UTC

RE: https://floss.social/@ramblingsteve/116945912010965459 "So basically people became much worse – the accuracy was only one third – but they were twice as confident," he said. … "I'm very much concerned for children, because adults have learned critical thinking. But for children who basically are born with these systems, the risk is that they don't even learn the basic critical skills." #hallucination #confidence #LLM #CriticalThinking

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@catsalad@infosec.exchange 2026-07-19 17:03

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social I hang around people way smarter than me to get the opposite effect!

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@Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol 2026-07-19 17:04

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social Adults have learned critical thinking? Citation needed.

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@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-07-19 17:08

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social "So basically people became much worse – the accuracy was only one third – but they were twice as confident" You don't need expensive AI for that, you can accomplish it much more cheaply just using alcohol. (Example: pilot is practising instrument approaches using a PC simulator. Takes a break, has a couple of gins. Practises some more approaches. Reckons he's doing much better after the gin. Reviews the data in the morning and discovers that actually the gin made his performance crap.)

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@Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-07-19 18:23

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social We needed to start teaching IT critical thinking 15-20 years ago. Propaganda and misinformation has been shoved down their throats for a long time.

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